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Drawing Program User Guide, Tutorial and Hands-On Workshop

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April 26, 2017
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Hi, everyone,

As it seems that there is not much help on

Drawing Program

, I decided to open up a new discussion about this.

What I know until now:

- the documentation of Creo 4.0 (I use Creo 2.0- does anyone where I can find that?)

Creo Parametric Help Center

-the fact that

A drawing program can only have up to 80 characters per line.
Characters input beyond 80 will be automatically truncated
Line continuation characters are not accepted by drawing program

(courtesy of Tom that pointed me to this: https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS34738#_ga=1.116686790.1914719267.1490615705 )

So, the question is:

Is there any Tutorial and/or Hands-On Workshop for Drawing Program?

as I found for the Pro/PROGRAM:

Tutorial: Pro/PROGRAM Primer

Pro/PROGRAM Tutorial

https://d2t1xqejof9utc.cloudfront.net/files/13343/Pro_Program_HOW.pdf?.. with the models files downloaded from here:

https://d2t1xqejof9utc.cloudfront.net/files/13344/proe_data.zip?1342610431 taken from here:

how to use pro/prgram in ptc creo or proe wilfire 5.0 - GrabCAD

I will start searching for something similar to update the discussion.

Keep in touch,

Nic.

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24-Ruby III

Please check PTC's "Learning Exchange" page: Searching for 'drawing'

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Hi, Vladimir.

I checked: there's nothing there.

Do you have some experience with Drawing Program?

Nic.

24-Ruby III

Yes, I have experience in Creo in the past, but I am now on Siemens NX.

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1-Visitor

It's such a shame that there is no knowledge about Drawing Program.

It's such a powerful tool!! And with Pro/PROGRAM could bring a lot of opportunities to an automated process in drawing.

I started to play with and I was very pleased of what it can do.

I tried to place a Symbol in one of the states and I couldn't find how. I know you can create detailed instances like the dimensions, notes and balloons but

I haven't found how to create/insert a Symbol in a View State.

I used the Help to find how's done:

To Create Detail Items in a Drawing State

To create detail items such as dimensions, notes, and balloon notes in a drawing state, choose Create from the DWG COMMANDS menu that appears when you click Tools > Drawing Program > Define States > Create State > Record Cmds. Items that you create in one state are not visible in any other state or outside of the drawing program.

15-Moonstone

if you just want to add, say for example a cloud symbol, to a view or part or whatever that is embedded in a state, then i think I have a solution for you.

Is that what you are looking to do?

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1-Visitor

yes. a symbol with a text in it for example. so I change the language, it will be a different state with a different symbol with the new language. More simply put: a cloud symbol that I could see in a particular View State

23-Emerald III

For my drawing program, I use layers that are turned on and off with the various notes I want displayed. The notes are already created, just not visible when that state is not active.

I do notes and drawing symbols the same way. They are selected when a parameter is changed.

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1-Visitor

but his problem still remains: if someone deletes the note, it will remain deleted.

17-Peridot

That's right. This is the limitation currently Iam experiencing.